SACRED TO THE MEMORY / OF / JAMES EARL STANHOPE, / WHOSE CONSUMMATE TALENTS AND GLORIOUS SERVICES / BOTH AS WARRIOR, AND AS A STATESMAN, / COMMANDED THE VENERATION OF HIS OWN COUNTRY/ AND THE APPLAUSE OF OTHER NATIONS, / EQUALLY ILLUSTRIOUS / IN THE ARMY IN THE SENATE AND IN THE COUNCIL / BY HIS FIRMNESS, HIS INTEGRITY, AND HIS WISDOM / HE DESERVED AND ADORNED / THE EXALTED HONORS (sic) / WITH WHICH HE WAS REWARDED / BY KING GEORGE THE FIRST, / AND EXHIBITED A SPLENDID EXAMPLE / WHICH ALL SHOULD SEEK TO EMULATE, / WHICH FEW COULD HOPE TO EQUAL, / WHICH NONE COULD EVER EXCELL,. / ON THE 5TH DAY OF FEBRUARY 1720 / HE TERMINATED IN THE 47TH YEAR OF HIS AGE / A LIFE PASSED IN PUBLIC AND PRIVATE VIRTUE / AND WHICH WAS JUSTLY DEAR / TO HIS FAMILY AND HIS FRIENDS / TO HIS COUNTRY AND HIS KING. / ---------- / THIS MONUMENT IS ERECTED ON HIS TOMB / AS A TESTIMONIAL / OF VENERATION AND OF GRATITUDE / BY HIS GREAT GRAND SON / PHILIP HENRY EARL STANHOPE. / IN THE YEAR 1817.